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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Signs of the Times (February 21, 2017)

Signs of the Times (February 21, 2017)

Rise of the Robot Military?

Here is the latest madness coming form the modern world

Warning: Sensitive Material

Robots poised to take over wide range of military jobs

The wave of automation that swept away tens of thousands of
American manufacturing and office jobs during the past two decades is
now washing over the armed forces, putting both rear-echelon and
front-line positions in jeopardy.

“Just as in the civilian
economy, automation will likely have a big impact on military
organizations in logistics and manufacturing,” said Michael Horowitz, a University of Pennsylvania professor and one of the globe’s foremost experts on weaponized robots.
“The U.S. military is very likely to pursue forms of automation
that reduce ‘back-office’ costs over time, as well as remove soldiers
from non-combat deployments where they might face risk from adversaries
on fluid battlefields, such as in transportation.”
Driver-less
vehicles poised to take taxi, train and truck driver jobs in the
civilian sector also could nab many combat-support slots in the Army.Warehouse robots that scoot goods to delivery vans could run the same chores inside Air Force ordnance and supply units.
New
machines that can scan, collate and analyze hundreds of thousands of
pages of legal documents in a day might outperform Navy legal
researchers.
Nurses, physicians and corpsmen could face
competition from computers designed to diagnose diseases and assist in
the operating room..
Frogmen might no longer need to rip out sea mines by hand — robots could do that for them.“Robots
will continue to replace the dirty, dull and dangerous jobs, and this
will affect typically more uneducated and unskilled workers,”
said Henrik Christensen, director of the Institute for Contextual
Robotics at UC San Diego. “You need to look at the mundane things.
Logistics tasks will not be solved by people driving around in trucks.
Instead, you will have fewer drivers. The lead driver in a convoy might
be human, but every truck following behind will not be. The jobs that
are the most boring will be the ones that get replaced because they’re
the easiest to automate.”

As
for warships, Horowitz said because of economic and personnel
reasons, they’re increasingly designed to “reduce the number of sailors
required for operations.”
The highly automated guided-missile
destroyer Zumwalt that arrived in San Diego in December carries 147
sailors — half the crew that runs similar warships — and deploys up to
three drone MQ-8 Fire Scout helicopters to find targets, map terrain and
sniff out bad weather.
The Office of Naval Research and the
Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office continue to experiment with
what futurists call a “ghost fleet” of unmanned but networked surface
and underwater boats — and their flying drone cousins overhead.
Tomorrow’s
sailors could begin to encounter what scores of bookkeepers, cashiers,
telephone operators and automotive assembly line workers already faced
in the past two decades as increasingly fast and cheap software and
automated machinery replaced some of their tasks in factories and
offices.
And that trend isn’t diminishing. Advances in artificial
intelligence, software and robotics threaten nearly half of
all American civilian jobs during the next several decades, according to
a 2013 analysis by Oxford University.
While such cuts might hit
low-wage manual laborers the hardest, the cheap cost of high-speed
computing also will slash many “high-income cognitive jobs” while
triggering the “hollowing-out of middle-income routine jobs,” the study
concluded.
In the United States, the push to automate blue-collar
trades accelerated after the 2009 global financial crisis. American
factories installed 27,500 units in 2015, triple the number six years
earlier, according to the International Federation of Robotics.
They also bought 60,000 robots between 2010 and 2015, second only to China’s nearly 90,000 units.
“Rapid
diffusion of technological advances could have something of a leveling
effect at some level, since many actors, both states and non-state
actors, could have access to cutting edge commercial (artificial
intelligence) and robotics,” Horowitz said.
Automobile manufacturers paced robot purchases in the United States.
There’s
now more than one robot for every 10 human jobs in the automotive
sector, but that doesn’t always mean the end of employing people. Jobs
at the big auto factories and parts makers rose 14 percent in the past
year, according to the January report from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
“It’s more complicated than people realize,” said UC
San Diego’s Christensen. “You will need more people to maintain the new
technology and the new technology displaces people so that they can do
other things. There are more bank tellers today than there were 30 years
ago. There are more administrative assistants than there were 30 years
ago. They don’t work in typing pools. They do other things.”
That’s
the thinking at Massachusetts-based Endeavor Robotics, too. A spin-off
of iRobot — maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner — Endeavor manufacturers
top-end robots that nimbly spin and scoot on mini-tank treads.
Some
machines are so small that they can fit inside a backpack. The military
uses them to clear roadside bombs or booby-trapped bunkers, keeping
Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams as far away from lethal explosives as
possible.
“We don’t look at one of our machines replacing a
person,” said Joseph Smith, an Endeavor rep who attended the Marine West
2017 trade expo at Camp Pendleton last month. “There’s always a person in the loop. The robot is just an extension of the human hand and the human brain.”
Endeavor’s
front-line robots aren’t that different from the automation arriving in
rear-echelon units like North Island Naval Air Station’s Fleet
Readiness Center Southwest.
At the center, Inovati KM-PCS, a
$500,000 robot that looks like a cake mixer mated with a dental drill,
hasn’t missed a day of work in over a year and has saved taxpayers at
least $6.7 million by fixing aircraft parts that used to get junked.
Made
in Santa Barbara, the robot toils in the depot’s Cold Spray Systems
room, stripping corrosion off of expensive fighter-jet components before
jetting a “moon dust” of metal particles into the dents and fissures.
“This
looks very attractive,” said William Taylor, the Marine Corps’
assistant deputy commandant for aviation, as he eyed the robot
recently. “There’s the ability to save money, to avoid cost, to allow us
to get stock back into shelves and to avoid scrapping parts and
salvaging them through repair.”

Nearby, depot engineer Conrad Macy held up a
pitted and scoured aluminum mounted accessory drive housing hydraulic
pads for the F-18 E/F Super Hornet strike fighter. The gizmo retails for
about $160,000 when it’s new, but the robot fixed it in minutes for
pennies.
“Before this technology, you’d just throw the housing away,” Macy said.
In the past, even when workers found parts they thought they could
salvage, the needed fixes were labor-intensive and failed between 20
percent to 40 percent of the time, said depot chemical engineer Matthew
Minnick.
He pointed to one complicated gadget a worker once had to
spend two days masking with special tape before it underwent a flame
spray treatment that took hours to cool before anyone could touch it.
After Inovati began fixing such parts, human employees could pop them
out with their bare hands.
“And the rejection (failure) rate for parts is zero — 150 parts with no rejections,” Minnick said.

13 pounds of horse genitals concealed in woman's luggage; claimed it was for medicinal purposes

STERLING, Va. - Customs agents have seen all sorts of things come
through travelers' baggage. And what they seized from two women at Washington Dulles International Airport last month may take the cake.
On January 29, two women arrived from Mongolia. Customs and Border Protection officers sent them for a routine agriculture examination. What was found inside might turn your stomach.RELATED:TSA lost-and-found virtual treasure chest at BWI
The
women had a combined 42 pounds of horse meat concealed inside juice
boxes. That includes 13 pounds of horse genitals that one of the women
claimed were for medicinal purposes.
Horse meat is prohibited from
entering the country unless the traveler has an official government
horse meat certification from the country of origination. The concern is
bringing foot and mouth disease into the United States and introducing
it to livestock here.
“Customs and Border Protection takes no pleasure in seizing and destroying travelers’ food products,” said Wayne Biondi, CBP Port Director for the Area Port of Washington Dulles.
“We’re in the business of protecting America’s agriculture industries,
like the livestock industry, from the potential introduction of animal
diseases posed by these unpermitted food products.”
All of the meat was incinerated.
“Safeguarding America’s agriculture industries, and by extension our nation’s economy, remains an enforcement priority for Customs and Border Protection. It is a mission that we take very seriously,” said Casey Owen Durst, CBP’s Field Operations Director in Baltimore, the agency’s operational commander in the mid-Atlantic region.
CBP agriculture specialists inspect more than 1 million people coming into the U.S. every day.

Hawaii Bill Could Legalize Prostitution Industry

Hawaii lawmakers are considering decriminalizing prostitution in the
state after the speaker of the House introduced a bill that would also
legalize buying sex and acting as a pimp. The proposal also would end a
state law that says police officers cannot have sex with prostitutes in
the course of investigations.
Transgender activist Tracy Ryan said she is trying to convince state
lawmakers to pass the bill because transgender women are overrepresented
in the sex trade and therefore disproportionately affected by
criminalization laws. House Speaker Joseph Souki said in an interview
that he does not have a position on the bill and he introduced it as a
favor for Ryan. READ MORE

Kindergartners Taught Sex-Ed And Parents Can’t Stop It

Primary schools and academies in England will be forced to teach sex
education, with no right of withdrawal for parents, if a new proposal
becomes law. New Clause 5 (NC5), would create a national curriculum
subject of “Relationships Education,” opening the door for lobby groups
to push explicit material on kids as young as five. It has been put
forward by MPs David Burrowes and Maria Miller as part of the Children
and Social Work Bill. It would apply to all state-funded
schools. Marketed as “Relationships Education,” the new clause is so
broad that it includes many aspects of sex education for which parents
currently have a right of withdrawal. However, because it creates a
compulsory subject, this right of withdrawal would no longer apply. It
could also be used to compel church schools to endorse same-sex
marriage. READ MORE

Buffalo mom jailed over homeschooling decision?

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) -

Single mother Kiarre Harris started
researching homeschooling last November. She says her two elementary
school aged children weren't excelling at their failing Buffalo Public
Schools.

"I felt that the district was failing my children and that's when I made the decision to homeschool," she said.

Harris says she filed documents at Buffalo City Hall, following all the
steps, informing the district of her intent to homeschool her children.
According to documents she provided to 7 Eyewitness News, they're dated
December 7th and the district says it received her paperwork.

"I spoke directly to the homeschool coordinator and she told me from
this point on my children were officially un-enrolled from school."

Things took a turn when she says a week later, Child Protective Services called, wondering why her kids weren't in school.

"I told them that my kids were homeschooled now and that I could furnish the documents if they need to see them."

Thinking everything was fine, Harris says she went on with her
homeschooling, but then, less than a month later she says she was
confronted by CPS workers and police. According to Harris, they told her
they had a court order to take her children and when she told them no,
she was arrested for obstruction.

She says she hasn't seen her kids in three weeks, and they've been in a foster institution.

The Buffalo Public School District says it cannot comment on this case
due to Federal Laws but says in order for a parent to file for
homeschooling, they must have full custody of the children.

Harris says she's a single parent and has always had full custody until her kids were taken away.

This case is far from finished. The Buffalo Common Council will be addressing it tomorrow.

Sex cinemas that allow the audience to take part in ORGIES with
actors using virtual reality and robot technology will be 'more
addictive than porn', vows inventor

Christina
Portales of the University of Valencia was updating experts at the Love
and Sex with Robots conference in London earlier this month.

According to the Daily Star,
she told delegates: 'Imagine a device where you could really kiss
Leonardo DiCaprio. It could be as addictive as pornographic material.

'All
senses have been integrated. People will see, people will smell, people
will touch. They will feel the movement. It is not an individual
activity. It is a group.'

The
high-tech environment will encompass seats which vibrate in the most
appropriate places along with surround sound and 3D glasses.

One future development could involve the deployment of 'sex robots' to make the shows fully interactive.

Patrons will be empowered to decide whether they receive the attentions of the actors on screen.

However,
it is unlikely the shows will feature A-listers, as they would have to
consent to their images to be used in such a manner.

Florida Couple Told To Remove Cross From Front Yard

Larry and Rose Kehoe never thought the roughly 12-inch, white cross
would cause controversy when they put it in their front yard. But
someone in the neighborhood apparently did not like it and filed an
anonymous complaint with the
Community Standards office. They showed up at the Kehoe’s house and
told them “lawn ornaments” of any kind are not allowed under homeowner’s
rules and that the cross had to come down. Click here to read The
Villages, District 9 Deed Restriction Rules (PDF). CONTINUE

Texas Mayor Comes Out as Transgender

Eight months after taking office, the mayor of a small Texas town has
become the first transgender elected official to come out publicly in
the state’s history. “As your Mayor I must tell you about something that
has been with me since my earliest memories, I am Transgender” said
Jess Herbst, the mayor of New Hope in Collin County. She gave the
message in an open letter posted on the town’s website.
Herbst, who has been documenting her transition on her personal blog
JessHerbst.com., also talked about how her decision affected her family:
“It is gender identity not sexual preference that applies to me. I love
my wife, and she loves me, we have no intention of change. My daughters
have been adamant supporters of me and are proud to tell people their
father is transgender.” READ MORE

Soon, married Italians might not have to promise to be faithful

Married couples in Italy will no longer have to promise to be faithful to each other, if a new bill is approved.

The proposed amendment to Italy's Civil Code would remove the word "fidelity" from Italian marriage contracts.

The promise not to cheat is a "cultural legacy from an outdated and
obsolete vision of marriage, family, and the rights and duties of
spouses", according to the senators who have signed the bill.
They cited a previous ruling from Italy's top court, which declared
that judges could not legally place the blame for a marriage separation
"on the mere failure to observe the duty of fidelity".
Instead, the other party has to prove that their spouse's infidelity led to the irreconcilable breakdown of the marriage.

The bill,
which was presented to the Italian Senate last year and has now been
passed to its Judiciary Committee, goes on to argue that there is an
element of sexism in the current wording. It was originally included to
refer to the woman's sexual fidelity, in order to determine whether
children were "legitimate", they noted.
"Until not long ago, only the fidelity of the woman was sufficient to
guarantee the 'legitimacy' of children," the bill notes, saying that
since the "hateful" legal distinction between "legitimate" and "natural"
children was scrapped in a 2012 ruling, there is no longer a need for
the clause.
The senators assert that fidelity should not be thought of only in
sexual terms, but also in terms of "trust and respect", and that while
it was an "important value", it should not be up to the State to impose
it by law.
References to fidelity and faithfulness were removed from Italy's civil unions bill
which was passed earlier this year - a change which provoked outcry
from some of the LGBT community, who saw this as a failure to
acknowledge the parity of same-sex and opposite-sex romantic
relationships.
Instead, that bill simply refers to "moral and material support" and "cohabitation".
Laura Cantini, one of the senators arguing for the fidelity clause to
be dropped from heterosexual marriage, said that the wording of the
civil unions bill is "a much more advanced model".
As to whether Italians live up to their reputation as Casanovas, the jury's still out.
A 2013 poll showed that 55 percent of men and one in three women in Italy admitted to cheating on their partners, making them the most likely to be unfaithful in Europe.

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."